[Ietf-caldav] [Fwd: draft-reschke-http-addmember-00]

[Bernard Desruisseaux]

Ideally we would have a solution that would work for all methods that
may request the creation of a new resource (e.g, LOCK, PUT, COPY, MOVE,
MKCOL, MKWORKSPACE, MKACTIVITY, MKCALENDAR, ...).

Could the solution be as simple as specifying an empty query component
(e.g., "?") in the Request-URI for those methods, and have the methods
return the Location header as part of their response?

For instance,

   PUT /calendar/bernard/?

would request the server to create a new resource in the collection
/calendar/bernard/ and let the server chose the name of the resource.

Is there already a defined use for the query component for the methods
mentionned above?

Cheers,
Bernard

Cyrus Daboo wrote:

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> Hi Julian,
> 
> --On February 17, 2005 2:54:38 PM +0100 Julian Reschke 
> <julian.reschke at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> 1) CalDav's approach is: use PUT to an arbitrary member URI of the
>> container; then let the server automagically move it somewhere else, and
>> report that in the Location response header
>> (<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-http-addmember-00.html#r
>> fc.section.A.2>).
> 
> 
> I want to add that in the CalDAV case this URI naming restriction will 
> also apply to COPY and MOVE methods too, not just PUT. So we do need to 
> come up with a solution that at least works with those methods too. Of 
> course it is possible to emulate COPY and MOVE using PUT (client 
> downloads original data, creates it in new location) and DELETE (remove 
> old data in the case of MOVE) - but we should really have the proper 
> atomic operations for this.
>